An excellent description of the Anglo-Saxon warrior from his weapons to his world of ideas and the reflection thereof in literature offers Stephen Pollington,The English Warrior from earliest times to 1066,Anglo-Saxon Books (Norfolk 1996).

Clark, Hall & Meritt,A Concise Dictionary with a supplement by Meritt, Herbert D., A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary, Fourth Edition; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960; reprinted at Toronto, University of Toronto Press (in association with the Medieval Academy of America), 1984.(of Anglo-Saxon words) are are standard. Very helpful from "here to there" is

Stephen Pollington's ,WordcraftAnglo-Saxon Books (Norfolk 1996). It is a key to Anglo-Saxon England by the help of a thesaurus. How would they have said it those days?

- The Elder Gods; - The Otherworld of Early England - Anglo-Saxon Books 2011: 520 pages
An excellent study on Anglo-Saxon mythology, most suitable for illuminating the background of the Franks Casket

Wolfgang Golther, Handbuch der Germanischen Mythologie, a helpful book, on which the passages on the Valkyrie 'Walküre' (S. 98-116) base.

E. Thorsson, the Runelore – A Handbook of Esoteric Runology (1987). Very surprisingly findings there, which do not refer to the Franks Casket verify my findings with regard to it. Excluding the esoteric practice the book presents valuable insight into rune magic ideas.

Unequalled with regard to the history as background of the Casket: Peter Hunter Blair,Northumbria in the days of Bede (1976: reprint 1996); an intellectual pleasure ground.

A clear, short and helpful portrayel of people and places renders P. J. Fairless,Northumbria’s Golden Age (1994).

And of course we should include the sources they all feed from, as for example The Age of Bede,ed. B. Redice (Penguin) ; or, ad fontes, straight to Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People,ed B. Radice (Penguin); but also Anglo Saxon Prose,transl. by M. Sweanton (Everyman 1993).